Major Media Opportunity with Trisha Yearwood and William Austin this Weekend

Country superstar Trisha Yearwood is joining the Starkey Hearing Foundation's mission this weekend and fitting 300 unerpriviledged children with hearing aids.

(PRWEB) June 4, 2005 -- We are presenting you with a singular opportunity to either send a news crew to cover hire a local crew, or send a journalist. This weekend (June 4-6), Country superstar Trisha Yearwood along with William Austin, head of the Starkey Hearing Foundation, and a dozen volunteers (including doctors and audiologists) will fit 300 underpriviledged children with hearing aids in Marida, Mexico (adjacent to Cozumel) to give the gift of hearing. We believe your viewers would be very interested in seeing this priceless footage.

Trisha Yearwood canceled plans in order to participate in this worthwhile mission.

FYI--The Starkey Hearing Foundation to date has given away 120,000 hearing aids to the underprivileged by going on self-financed missions around the world.

(Bill Austin's encounters with celebrities alone could fill a book. He has personally fitted four presidents with hearing aids: Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Sr., and Bill Clinton. He has also provided hearing assistance to renowned people including Steve Martin, Paul Newman, Kirk Douglas, Walter Cronkite, Sidney Sheldon, Buzz Aldrin, Billy Graham, Marlee Matlin, Former Miss America Heather Whitestoneand Norman Schwarzkopf, among many others.)

We look forward to hearing back if you are interested in covering this unique project. Incidentally, we can arrange to get special video and/or stills of this one-time only happening.

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